This author was forced in
This author was forced into writing professionally when the flooding of a sulfur mine ruined his family financially. In one of his stories, the craftsman Zi Dima invents a powerful glue, but gets stuck inside while repairing the title container for the litigious Don Lolo Zirafa. Another of his stories ends with the sobbing realization of a man who had rationalized the death of his son after a conversation on a train between parents who had watched their children go to the title conflict. This author of "The Jar" and "War" wrote a novel about a character who serves as a glorified rat catcher after being appointed caretaker of a library. That character has his family's fortune whittled away by (*) Malagna and assumes the identity of Adriano Meis after winning a small fortune at Monte Carlo and reading about his own death in the newspaper. For 10 points, name this author of The Late Mattia Pascal, an Italian best known for his plays Henry IV and Six Characters in Search of an Author.
This author was forced into writing professionally when the flooding of a sulfur mine ruined his family financially.
Luigi Pirandello